...persons of the legislators and the rational purposes which may justify their rule: The Legislature being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislature, when they find the Legislature act contrary to the...

...persons of the legislators and the rational purposes which may justify their rule: The Legislature being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to the remove or alter the Legislature, when they find the Legislature act contrary to...

...obligation of a Law" of the Commonwealth.20 But always "there remains still in the people a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they...Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. . . ."21 This is a government of law, and it seems clear that sovereignty (the "supream power") always...

...acting contrary to the people's interests, and should it do so, it ought to be resisted by them. Thus, The Legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they shall find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ... the trust must necessarily...

...of making Laws to any Body else, or place it anywhere but where the People have' (§ 142). 59. Thus 'the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative ...'(§ 149). Subject to this ultimate 'sovereignty'...

...but one Supream Power which is the Legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains in the People a Supream Pouvr to remove or alter the Legislative when they find the Legislative act...

...added in 1689 as a reference to 366 rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislative being only 5 a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the...

...somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms. Locke's claim that the people retained 'a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative,...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them' could not be accepted, insisted Blackstone: For this devolution of power, to the people at large, includes...

..."only a fiduciary power," which has been established by the people only "to act for certain ends." Yet "there remains still in the people a supreme power...the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them."130 It should be noted, moreover, that the very things Parliament was attempting to do — for...

...owned that Mr. Locke, and other theoretical writers, have held, that 'there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. . . .' " Blackstone insists that, "however just this conclusion may be in theory" — and it is just...